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Lowes and Meteor link up for structured product platform
Adviser firm Lowes Financial Management and Meteor Asset Management are launching a structured product platform in the summer.
CMC trade body slams calls for tighter regulation
Claims Standards Council says Which? and MoneySavingExpert.com should be “ashamed of themselves” for “siding with banks”.
M&G’s Riddell: EM debt is not a safe haven
M&G bond manager Mike Riddell says emerging markets are not a safe haven from the developed world.
Allianz unveils risk-profiled range
Allianz Global Investors has launched a range of risk-profiled funds with RDR ready share classes.
Carmignac: Greece has effectively left eurozone
Greece has effectively already left the euro, says Edouard Carmignac, chairman and chief investment officer of Carmignac Gestion.
M&G’s Dobell favours consumers stocks in recovery fund
M&G fund manager Tom Dobell says he is seeing a number of opportunities in the consumer sector for his £7.9bn recovery fund.
Swip appoints head of marketing
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has appointed Ian Marsh as head of marketing.
BoE cuts growth forecast to 0.8%
BoE inflation report says inflation will fall at a slower pace than previously expected.
FSA looks to ban executive after High Court ruling
Regulator has decided to ban BGC senior executive Anthony Verrier on the basis is not a fit and proper person.
Santander appoints CIO as Bearman leaves
Santander Asset Management has named Butterfield Bank’s David Stewart as its chief investment officer following the departure of John Bearman.
UK unemployment falls by 45,000
UK unemployment fell by 45,000 in the three months to March to stand at 2.63 million , according to the ONS.
Tulloch stepping down as First State joint managing partner
Fund manager Angus Tulloch is stepping down from the role to focus of fund management responsibilities.
Blogs
Tom Kean: Complex regulation is another crash in the making
Tom Kean says the industry must learn to simplify everything its says and does.
Lawson: 10 reasons why the NAPF's code will not work
Standard Life head of pensions policy John Lawson explains why he thinks the proposed charges code of conduct will not work in practice.
Could RDR actually create more bad advice?
Philippa Gee asks if the RDR is a disaster waiting to happen.
Ian McKenna: Can Time 4 Advice help drive software innovation?
Time 4 Advice has joined the growing list of innovative adviser software providers.
Tom Baigrie: Watch out for the next hard sell
Regulation has to have a boundary and it is just beyond that boundary that consumer detriment breeds and mutates.
Ian McKenna: Avelo/Trigold deal is a valuable market shake-up
Today’s deal raises major challenges for their competitors.
Rob Reid: The problem with adviser charging
Managing director of Syndaxi Chartered Financial Planners sets out his concerns with the current rules
